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First Big Act of the Resistance. Take a Me Day. [1]

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Date: 2025-01-19

Need a break? Feeling a combination of rage, despair, and exhaustion? Want to piss off the first felon? Want to do it without having to do anything hard because of the aforementioned rage and exhaustion? Yeah me too.

So in this very short diary I just wanted to offer one piece of advice. Spend the inauguration doing anything but Trump. Spend time with your kids. Spend time reading a good book. Laugh with Friends. Get out in nature. Watch a movie. Do something productive. But whatever you do, don’t watch the train wreck or give him any energy. Screw him.

Others have talked about tanking his ratings, which I think is a delightful idea, We all remember how insanely Trump freaked out about his first inauguration being smaller than Obama’s. Well let’s add to it, Let’s add to it by subtracting ourselves from it entirely. Tell any friends you know to do the same. It will piss Trump off to no end. And while you are at it, why not make it restorative for yourself as well? Give right wing trolls no libs to own. no one to argue with, just… silence.

Spend the day reminding yourself what is good in life, it will help us remember what we fight for when our turn really comes to step up to the plate.

Know that there will be plenty of time to fight actively. We will have some truly awful policy and awful people to resist. But for this week, there isn’t much we can do.

So my advice get far away from it, if you can. In fact, I’d say don’t watch or read any news for the next five days or so. Don’t even read reports about how the inauguration went, or what the first idiot said, or what CNN thinks it means for America, while their panel of fools debate every word of Trump’s speech looking for evidence he has become presidential.

Tune it out.

The legacy media, in large part gave us Trump by breathlessly reporting every stupid thing he said or did for the last eight years. They allowed Trump to dominate every conversation during the election and in previous years. Wouldn’t it be nice to give them some very low ratings for a change as well? At least for something like this? Let’s exercise our power by choosing where we direct our attention. What we click on. And for a few days let’s take it away from them.

And just to be clear, I’m not saying become apathetic, or cynical or uninformed in the long term. I’m not saying turn your back and give up. I’m saying let’s save our strength for the real fights, I’m saying let’s demonstrate to the media they need to serve us a bit better. Let’s demonstrate to Trump he doesn’t have our approval and he won’t dominate our attention. Let’s demonstrate we will choose when and where to engage.

If we succeed we will give Trump low ratings and drive him crazy and remind the media, that liberal viewers are actually nice to have for those sweet ad dollars. And as a bonus it will be good for our mental health to be away. At least that is what I hope it will do and that is why I will be blissfully unaware for the next week while the orange clown has his moment in the sun.

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